On Sunday, February 28, the book of history records, among other things:
1616: The Lebzelter Vinzenz Fettmilch, under whose leadership the Jewish ghetto was plundered on August 22, 1614, is executed in Frankfurt.
1866: The Prussian Council of Ministers decides to go to war against Austria.
1921: Soviet Russia and Afghanistan sign a friendship treaty.
1936: The Viennese Karl Schäfer becomes world champion in figure skating in Paris – for the seventh time.
1946: The Inter-Allied Reparations Agency is set up in Brussels to distribute German foreign balances and the values available in the western zones.
1946: The last British troops leave Iran.
1956: The left-wing government of Socialist Guy Mollet introduced three-week paid leave in France.
1961: The German Federal Constitutional Court declares state television to be unconstitutional. Thereupon the federal states agree on the establishment of a public television.
1971: In the Principality of Liechtenstein, the introduction of women’s suffrage fails in a referendum.
1981: In Vienna, the U1 underground line between the Nestroyplatz and Praterstern stations goes into operation.
1986: In Stockholm, Sweden’s Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot dead by an assassin who has not yet been caught after going to the cinema on the street.
1991: The largest murder trial of the Second Republic begins in Vienna: four ward assistants from the Lainz Hospital are accused of having committed 42 murders, some of them alone and some in community, of mostly elderly patients.
1991: Gulf War: US President George Bush announces the liberation of Kuwait, the defeat of the Iraqi army and a conditional, provisional ceasefire.
1996: Princess Diana officially agrees to divorce Prince Charles.
2006: The orange-red coalition in Carinthia falls apart. SPÖ country chief Gaby Schaunig terminates the cooperation with the BZÖ. The last incident was the dispute over the “Carinthian life security”.
Birthdays: Leo Freiherr von König, German painter (1871-1944); Hans Stocker, Switzerland. Painter (1896-1983); Philipp S. Hench, US medic; Nobel Prize 1950 (1896-1965); Linus Pauling, US chemist; Nobel Prize 1962 (1901-1994); Willi Sitte, German painter (1921-2013); Robin Cook, British Ex-Foreign Secretary (1946-2005); Ludwig Hirsch, east. Songwriter / actor (1946-2011); Gustav Thöni, Italian ex-ski racer (1951).
Days of Death: Henry James, U.S. writer (1843-1916); Albin Lesky, East. Philologist (1896-1981); Joseph Wittlin, Poland. Writer (1898-1976); Jane Russell, American actress (1921-2011); George Kennedy, American actor (1925-2016); Olof Palme, Sweden. Politician (1927-1986); Annie Girardot, franz. Actress (1931-2011).
Name days: Oswald Antonia Roman, Walfriede, Silvana Hilary Sirah, Elizabeth.
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